MSI 848P NEO-V - Motherboard - ATX manual RAS# Precharge, RAS# to CAS# Delay, Precharge Delay

MS-6788 ATX Mainboard

RAS# Precharge

This item controls the number of cycles for Row Address Strobe (RAS) to be allowed to precharge. If insufficient time is allowed for the RAS to accumulate its charge before DRAM refresh, refresh may be incomplete and DRAM may fail to retain data. This item applies only when synchronous DRAM is installed in the system. Available settings: [2 Clocks], [3 Clocks], [4 Clocks].

RAS# to CAS# Delay

When DRAM is refreshed, both rows and columns are addressed separately. This setup item allows you to determine the timing of the tran- sition from RAS (row address strobe) to CAS (column address strobe). The less the clock cycles, the faster the DRAM performance. Setting options: [2 Clocks], [3 Clocks], [4 Clocks].

Precharge Delay

The field specifies the idle cycles before precharging an idle bank. Settings: [5 Clocks], [6 Clocks], [7 Clocks], [8 Clocks].

Burst Length

This setting allows you to set the size of Burst-Length for DRAM. Bursting feature is a technique that DRAM itself predicts the address of the next memory location to be accessed after the first address is accessed. To use the feature, you need to define the burst length, which is the actual length of burst plus the starting address and allows internal address coun- ter to properly generate the next memory location. The bigger the size, the faster the DRAM performance. Settings: [4], [8].

AGP Aperture Size (MB)

This setting controls just how much system RAM can be allocated to AGP for video purposes. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated to graphics memory address space. Host cycles that hit the aperture range are for- warded to the AGP without any translation. The option allows the selection of an aperture size of [4MB], [8MB], [16MB], [32MB], [64MB], [128MB], and [256 MB].

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